Showing posts with label Nordiska Trädgårdar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nordiska Trädgårdar. Show all posts

April 16, 2012

Svenska Dahliasällskapet at Nordiska Trädgårdar 2012

    The Fair is over. Since January my mind was occupied with thoughts on organizing the stand for Svenska Dahliasällskapet and now I have a bit strange feeling that I don't need to worry about how everything would work out any more. We all had a great time. Interest in our stand was enormous, many new and experienced dahlia enthusiasts found their way to us. It was very nice to meet all the fair visitors and to share our passion for these magnificent plants. Here are some pictures from the 3rd day of the fair in our stand.

On the background of our stand we had beautiful canvas pictures made by our new sponsor KB Foto. We are very grateful to them for making our stand so impressive this year. Hopefully we'll keep our fruitful cooperation in the future.


Our selling area is starting to look not so full as it was on first days. We had tubers, cuttings, seedlings and seeds for sale. Everything was very popular.


Charlotte is showing how easy it is to divide tubers and propagate your own dahlias.


We had some potted tubers for sale as well. Karin is showing one of them to the fair visitors.

April 10, 2012

Beginning of new dahlia season 2012


    My dahlias have started their preparation for the new season back in the middle of February. I brought up from the winter storage some tubers of my favorite varieties as well as tubers that I received in exchange with Nadezhda and those that I bought from Peter Haslhofer and put them in trays filled with potting media. It took a few days for the tubers to wake up and start to sprout with new growth.


Since beginning of March I'm taking cuttings. It takes about 14 days for them to root in moist coir substrate in a mini-greenhouse.


As soon as the roots appear I plant cuttings in nutritious potting mixture and keep them on sunny windowsills.


Last summer the plants developed from cuttings were growing very well and flowering earlier then those that were grown from tubers. Tuber production from cuttings was fine as well. Some of the cuttings I'm planning to offer for sale in our society stand at Nordiska Trädgårdar 2012.

April 9, 2012

Nordiska Trädgårdar 2012, April 12-15

    Long Easter weekend is almost over. On Thursday starts the main garden event of the spring - Nordiska Trädgårdar 2012. The fair lasts on from April 12 to April 15. This year I'm responsible for organizing of Svenska Dahliasällskapets stand. The Stockholms planning group worked hard to organize a twice larger stand then our society used to have. We'll have several workshops on tuber dividing and planting dahlia seedlings. Many unusual and hard to find dahlia varieties will be offered for sale by our members. Everybody is very welcome to visit our stand A01:20!

     There is an excess of tubers in my stock that I'd have for sale as well. These sales are raising funds for Svenska Dahliasällskapet and give me opportunity to get new varieties to my collection. I shall have tubers of about 50 different varieties to offer to the fair visitors. Here comes the list of these varieties:

AC Rooster
Alauna Aurora
Alauna Luna
Anthéa
Arica
Birka Alf
Birka Hallon
Birka Scandinavian Sunshine
Black Jack
Carmen
Chiffon
Clair-Obscure
Colorado Classic
Dagla-80
Electric Flash
Flirt
Fruti
Gallery Art Fair
Gallery Art Nouveau
Gallery Matisse
Gallery Salvador
Giraffe
Hapet 2008/121
Hapet 2008/620
Hapet 2009/48
Hapet 2009/77
Hapet Red King
Hapet Spartan
Hillcrest Suffusion
Isadora
Kalinka
Kenora Macop B
Magic Moment
Melody Dixie
Melody Dora
Melody Gipsy
Melody Harmony
Melody Latin
Melody Mambo
Mick’s Peppermint
Mingus Laura
Moor Place
Nenekazi
Olga
Pinelands Princess
Pooh
Rebecca's World
Simon's Honor
Skipley Swingtime
Star's Favourite
Trelyn Rhiannon
Vicki
Vista Lindsey
Wyn’s Pinking for You
Wyn’s Radiant Star

March 27, 2011

Nordiska Trädgårdar. Impressions

   It was great! I had a really really nice time in the Fair and especially in Svenska Dahliasällskapet stand. Thanks a lot to Kerstin, Lena, Charlotte, Ulla, Olof, Marie and all others who presented our society to the Fair visitors! It was great pleasure to work together with you. We had a very good looking stand (Irene published some photos in her blog) with many dahlia plants of different age from 5 days old seedlings to almost full size bushes of low growing varieties. The stand was full of people all the time. I was amazed by how many interested people were coming and asking questions about my favorite plant. Despite my poor Swedish :). The tubers that I brought for sale were sold out after couple of hours. Our lottery was very popular as well since we had some nice prizes - books, dahlia tubers and seeds, honey... We got several new members in the society who signed up for the membership right in the Fair. So it was great success and plenty of fun.
   The rest of the Fair was very busy and had some nice exhibitors. In the part of the Fair presenting various garden enthusiast societies I liked the most our neighborers stand of Svenska Bonsaisällskapet with their gorgeous Japanese maple bonsai. The cute small rhododendrons and flowering apple tree were beautiful too. Also I couldn't pass by the stand of Svenska Saintpauliasällskapet. I recalled my old love that I had a few years ago to that cozy little plant when I kept a 50+ varieties collection on a light stand in my bedroom. Since then only 3 varieties survived but yesterday I got 5 more leaves of varieties new to me. I'm curious how they will perform.
   The main part of the Fair was a bit smaller than it was last year. Some exhibitors like Zetas or Plantagen were not presented although I didn't miss them there :). Of course, some participants were the same as in Kista Mässan Rum & Trädgård. I lost count of Pelargonium nurseries, it seems the be to main favourite plant of Sweden. In the stand of Elises Blomsterlökar I found a bit different assortment of tubers and of course couldn't resist to buy some dahlias. Plantbutiken stand was full of tiny but very healthy looking rooted cuttings of petunias, pelargoniums and of course Calibrachoa - one of the best plants for hanging baskets. Wibrant Trädgård Rockdala had a bit different choice of fuchsia varieties and I got 2 more for my own collection. I was very glad to find stand selling coconut fiber blocks which I consider one of the best rooting medias for cuttings.
   I had a great time and already looking forward for the next year Nordiska Trädgårdar.



   Долгожданная Стокгольмская садовая выставка оправдала мои ожидания с лихвой. Было ужасно интересно поучаствовать в таком мероприятии в качестве представителя Шведского общества любителей георгин. На нашем стенде постоянно было много народу. Люди расспрашивали нас о георгинах, разглядывали и покупали трехнедельные сеяцы, черенки и клубни. Коробка делёнок, что принесла я, была распродана, к моему удивлению, часа за 4. Эти 4 часа пролетели для меня незаметно за разговорами с посетителями выставки. Такой опыт оказался очень приятным, и я с удовольствием поучаствую в следующей выставке.
   Среди стендов обществ любителей других растений как всегда мне был наиболее интересен стенд Шведского общества любителей бонсаи с их красивейшими японским кленами и цветущими карликовыми яблонями. На стенде Шведского общества любителей сенполий мне попались на глаза черенки русских сортов и я, как давнишний фиалочный коллекционер, конечно не удержалась от приобретения нескольких листьев.
   Выставка в целом была поменьше прошлогодней, некоторых участников не было в этот раз. Зато было не счесть фирм, торгующих черенками пеларгонии - самого любимого шведского растения. На стенде Elises Blomsterlökar был не совсем стандартный набор клубней, и я приобрела пару сортов георгин. Plantbutiken предлагал выбор крепеньких черенков петуний, пеларгоний и, конечно, каллибрахоа - одного из лучших растений для подвесных корзин. Конечно я не смогла пройти мимо стенда Wibrant Trädgård Rockdala где был представлен новый ассортимент сортов и добавила в свою коллекцию еще два сорта. Удалось мне пополнить запас кокосового волокна - прекрасного материала для укоренения черенков. В общем, выставка оставила самые хорошие впечатления и уже хочется посетить следующую.

March 20, 2011

Soon Nordiska Trädgårdar...



   My preparations to participation in Nordiska Trädgårdar started already a week ago. I checked tubers that I can provide for the lottery and sale at Svenska Dahliasällskapet stand and now making labels for them. There are 15 varieties that I raised and overwintered and can bring to the sale.
Ace Summer Sunset
Apache
Canary Fubuki
Dutch Explosion
English Breakfast
Ferncliff Illusion
Gallery Art Fair
GH Lammerse
Melody Gipsy
Melody Latin
Melody Mambo
Mick's Peppermint
Nuit d’Été
Tahoma Star
Tireno

   I was planning to have some rooted cuttings for sale too but I started to take cuttings too late and not many of them managed to get roots by now. So there will be only tubers. I'm looking forward to see whether exhibition visitors would like to buy my dahlias at all, it will be the first time for me to sell my own tubers.


   Another nice thing happened few days ago - I received my first French dahlia order from Plantes et Jardins of varieties created by Ernest Turc. I learnt about French dahlias from my Russian friend Nadezhda and looked for them in Sweden. Surprisingly to me French varieties are not sold in Swedish garden stores as they are in Russia. That's a pity since many of them are great garden dahlias and they differ a lot from the standard assortment from Holland.
 
 
 
 
 
 



   Мои приготовления к участию в выставке Nordiska Trädgårdar начались уже неделю назад. Я отобрала клубни для лотереи и распродажи на стенде Svenska Dahliasällskapet и теперь надо сделать этикетки для них. На эту распродажу пойдут 15 сортов выращенных и сохраненных мной с прошлого года.
   По неопытности я слишком поздно начала процесс черенкования, и не все черенки, которые я планировала принести на эту распродажу, успели укорениться. Так что обойдусь одними клубнями. Мне не терпится узнать будут ли посетители выставки покупать мои клубни, ведь это мой первый опыт продажи георгин.
   Еще одно приятное событие произошло на этой неделе. Я получила мой первый французский заказ из интернет-магазина Plantes et Jardins на георгины Эрнеста Тюрка. О французских георгинах я узнала от Надежды и стала искать их в Швеции. Как оказалось, в садовых центрах Швеции, к сожалению, не продают французских георгин в отличие от России. Среди французских георгин немало прекрасных садовых сортов и эти сорта отличаются от сортов из стандартного голландского набора местных садовых центров.